About Digital Humanities
Over the last decade, humanistic research and teaching has changed. Equipped with digital technology, scholars are rethinking research, publication, and pedagogy.
The Digital Humanities program prepares students to work in this new environment, providing them with knowledge about the tools, methods, and theoretical issues central to the emerging field. Students in the DH program learn about text analysis, data mining, visualization, modeling and simulation, geospatial analysis and mapping, multimedia storytelling, information design, network analysis, interface design, and mark-up, and they also receive the training they need to apply these tools to humanistic questions.
About the Class
Technology impacts the multiple ways we create and share stories. It facilitates and encourages identity formation from the individual to the national. Through engagement with multimodal texts, discussions, and workshops, DH 150, Digital Storytelling, explores how technology and social media influence, strengthen and sometimes weaken the fabric of society. In this class, students used concepts of digital storytelling (narrative conventions, multimodal applications, audio and video editing, non-linear and data-oriented storytelling) to create computer-based media and share stories about a topic of their choosing.
About the Author
Olivia Bollinger is a fourth-year student at UCLA, where she is pursuing a major in Cognitive Science and a minor in Digital Humanities. Olivia’s family’s refugee experience serves as the inspirational core of this project. Through her studies and personal experiences, Olivia has developed an interest in using digital platforms to amplify the voices of those whose stories are often untold.
Technology Description:
This project utilizes Twine, an open-source tool used for creating interactive, non-linear stories.
Bibiliography
“After-Lives of the Vietnam War: The Art of Southeast Asian Refugees.” Calisphere, calisphere.org/exhibitions/88/after-lives-vietnam-war/. Accessed 15 Mar. 2024.
Bollinger, Olivia, and Thu Nguyen. 5 Mar. 2024.
Canada, Asia Pacific Foundation of. “Vietnam after the War.” Asia Pacific Curriculum, asiapacificcurriculum.ca/learning-module/vietnam-after-war. Accessed 19 Feb. 2024.
Cotter, Holland. “Vietnam, through the Eyes of Artists.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 4 Apr. 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/arts/design/vietnam-war-american-art-review-smithsonian.html.
“How the End of the Vietnam War Led to a Refugee Crisis.” History.Com, A&E Television Networks, www.history.com/news/vietnam-war-refugees. Accessed 19 Feb. 2024.
“The Vietnam War.” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service, www.pbs.org/show/vietnam-war/. Accessed 15 Mar. 2024.
“Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past Is Prologue.” Smithsonian American Art Museum, americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/chung. Accessed 15 Mar. 2024.
Vietnamese Americans, www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/kits/vac_brief_history.pdf. Accessed 20 Feb. 2024.
“Vietnam War: Dates and Timeline.” History.Com, A&E Television Networks, www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war. Accessed 19 Feb. 2024.
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